daily mail smears labor day rally

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un-fucking-believable

they spoke of a divided crowd who heckled the speakers, which didn't happen (ask anyone who was there). i was puzzled by this article until i noticed the author. it's chris stirewalt, a massively rightwing columnist and hardly an objective source. he cherry-picked a few drunks and treated them as a representaive sample. his contact info is included. call him. write a letter to the editor.

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the daily mail's story:

Music lovers, political
types mix smoothly
Boulevard event with big-name
musicians drew divided crowd

Chris Stirewalt
Daily Mail Political Editor

Tuesday September 07, 2004


Whether you were inspired or annoyed by the fiery speeches leading up to Willie Nelson's performance at the Labor Day concert and political rally at Charleston's riverfront may have depended on what your T-shirt said.

If you had on a Rebel flag or novelty beer shirt, you probably thought the oratory from the likes of the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Jim Humphreys was just more delay before the more popular redhead took the stage.

On the other hand, if you were wearing a "Laborers for Kerry" or "Hail to the thief" shirt, you were witnessing the start of a push back against "that chicken hawk, George W. Bush."

http://dailymail.com/news/News/200409071 /
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example of stirewalt's work:

John Kerry's
swift boat springs a leak
Democrats look a little groggy
after their flashback
Having been born seven months after the fall of Saigon, I am finding this presidential campaign a little batty of late.
I grew up with the idea that the Vietnam War and the domestic insurgency it spawned were dark days in American history.

When I was reaching political consciousness in the 1980s, nobody wanted to bring it up as part of a campaign. War heroes were to be revered, and the failures at home and abroad that led to our defeat were to be studied, but the national dialogue had moved beyond southeast Asia.

It was morning in America, and that meant we could finally move the dreadful period of 1965 to 1975 -- from large-scale escalation to total retreat -- from the category of current events into history.

Chastened and wiser, America could once again reach for greatness.

When we brought our moribund economy roaring back to life, built the greatest military the world had ever known and defeated Soviet communism, the curse of Vietnam had been broken.
http://dailymail.com/news/Chris+Stirewalt-20040827

Contact writer Chris Stirewalt at 348-4824.